Why ask me? Did you want my personal opinion, or did you want an official SDMB explanation?
Signatures that have been used for more than six (6) years should be allowed. Inane signatures should be allowed, also.
I’m not visually, or personally, bothered by green fonts. I have the choice of highlighting the web page which changes the font and background color. If you can type it, I can figure out how to read it.
Be well
doorhinge
Nobody reads the rules anymore.
May Your Hemmorhoids Shrink Without Surgery,
Shodan
Make this one permanent, and I’ll back you to the ends of the earth.
Don’t be so unimaginative.
My Nipples Tingle When You Post in Colors,
Shodan
You should know that from now on in my head you will be “Shodan of the Tingly Nipples.”
See, now this I can support.
:smack:
You win again, Nef Ref
Toodles,
tbg
BigT seems to be doing that thing done at other message boards where he’s speaking for the board in general by using the pronoun “we”.
On the upside, on this message board (as opposed to some others), it doesn’t seem like the mods actually believe that he is speaking for the entire message board.
As for the colored font issue, I can see the OP’s desire for uniform modding. But this is a case where there’s a range of acceptability. One word in a different font for emphasis is different than a whole post in a different font which is again different than a whole post in 24 pt. RED font. If some people could use 24 pt. red font and others couldn’t, I’d see the OP’s point more. But in this case, it seems like people doing the same thing are subject to the same notice. I’m good with that.
Talk about your first world problems.
The SD non-policy and implementation of font usage rules is exactly as it should be. And, if a poll were to be taken, I’m confident the majority of Dopers would demonstrate that they feel the same way. Use alternate font/color once in a while if you want, just don’t make it an annoying habit.
The green font gal was reprimanded first by a couple of non-mods for her exclusive usage of green fonts. It was annoying. She snarked and ignored the suggestion. Then she was given an “official moderator instruction.”
Do you think an official moderator instruction is something that impacts her (or anyone’s) life in an overly deleterious manner? Does it put her in a higher tax bracket? Does she have to wear a “I’m a Green Font Abuser” sandwich board at the public square? Does it even affect her ability to continue posting to the SDMB? No, none of that. It was simply a more official notice that her green font usage was not appreciated. That’s all.
I’ve been posting on the SDMB for, I reckon going on 85 years now and I’ve never been given a warning or any other type of official moderator reprimand. That’s because I’m a Good Do-Bee Doper. I follow the rules and often give well-polished apples to both Ed and Cecil (Cecil prefers Grannie Smiths; Ed likes Red Delicious with a green worm inside).
If I were ever given an official moderator instruction, it could very well devastate me and make me reconsider the meaning of my life, because I am special, and overly sensitive…so, moderators, don’t even think about it!
I appreciate the ability to post something someday in an alternate font, or color. I haven’t really done so thus far, but it’s nice to know that I could if I felt the urge. But, I would also accept a moderator nudge if my alternate font usage became a habit. In fact, it could preemptively rescue me from the downward spiral into chronic font abuse and save me the embarrassment of having to attend FA (Fontaholic Anonymous) meetings.
if you want to make a new rule that all of us villagers can rally around with our torches and pitch-forks, make it a capital offence to start the first word in every sentence with a lower case letter. those people should be drawn and quartered…on a regular basis.
These are the arguments that don’t make sense to me (not just your’s it’s just the one I’m quoting).
Great, so let people pit her. There’s other things that other people do that are annoying that other people get reprimanded for by non-mods. But they don’t get “official moderator instruction” to knock it off.
Now, honestly, that argument could be used to reason why any moderator note or warning should just be left alone. If a mod ever gives you an unfair warning (I once got a warning for making a joke that Twickster didn’t think was funny), I’ll be sure to bring this up.
Could you be a lamb and point me to the rule the Miss S broke, I’ve yet to see it cited other than vague mentions of ‘community standards’ and ‘unwritten rule’.
i think johnpost has that market cornered. drives me batty, i skip his posts.
But a note and a warning still aren’t the same, are they? The former is guidance and the latter is an infraction that goes on your permanent record, right? I didn’t think just basic moderator instructions / suggestions were any big deal.
What would happen if she continued to not break the rules and post in green?
Actually, I lied (unintentionally) in my previous post. I was given a mild moderator slap on the wrist in in a thread I started in 2005. I called someone a dingleberry ( but, dammit, he was acting like one). I also used red font in a few words in that thread.
I take offence to being called a lamb. Are you making fun of my Dodge Ram? My mutton chops? My sheepskin vest? Please knock it off. Consider this an official non-moderator instruction.
If she continued, she would be breaking the rules.
And that seems fair to you?
Fair is whatever a Mod decides is fair.
Ya know what’s harder, for me, to read than the colored font (which I had no real issue with). Posts like this, it’s like reading a haiku.
For me, while I don’t think I agree with the modding itself, I still can’t grasp this “fairness” argument. She was on notice that at least one moderator had a problem with what she was doing. There was no uncertainty (at least, I don’t read the note as having uncertainty). So how is it unfair?
I guess, for me, unfair would be if he had been banned for using green font, or otherwise penalized. But she wasn’t.
Yes, because as far as I know the same would apply to anyone else who ignored a moderator instruction.
She broke no rule.
If a mod told you to stop doing something simply because they had a problem with what you were doing (your words), you’d just be okay with that? Giving the mods the ability to order users to stop doing something (and then warn them if they don’t heed said note) just because they have a problem with it seems like an awful lot of power.
Seriously, “Hey, you, no writing in green, we don’t allow that here”. :dubious: